===Alexander Timm House at 17
Gdańska Street, corner with Pomorska Street=== Built in 1852 by
Karl Bergner Eclecticism This corner house has been commissioned by Mr Jäfel, a
lithograph. In 1908, a drugstore run by Dr Aurel Kratz opened there: he was also selling goods for cameras until World War I. He then moved to
Friedrichstraße. The building is on a triangular footprint plot, a challenge for the designer. It displays a nice
bay window on the corner facade. The first floor windows, around the bay-window are more adorned than others with flanking
pilasters topped with
corbels and a
frieze of
ornaments. The second floors windows are capped by triangular
pediments and have also small
corbels and pilasters. The 3rd level openings are only flanked by clean pilasters and pediment topped. A line of designed
corbels runs beneath the roof. File:Bdg Dworcowa 2 róg Pomorskiej a 05-2013.jpg|Facade onto Pomorska Street File:Dworcowa 2.jpg|View from
Gdańska Street File:Pomorska 1 detail.JPG|Detail of the corner house
Wilhelm ßiehl tenement, at 3 Registered on
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr.727947, Reg.A/1530, April 4, 2009 1878
Eclecticism &
Neo-renaissance The house was commissioned by Wilhelm ßiehl, a baker, who lived in
Bahnhofstraße. At this time, it was one of the first habitation building to be erected in the street. Among corner buildings of Pomorska Street, this house stands out as it is not built according to a rectangular, but a triangular footprint (like the tenement at Nr.1): Józef Swiecicki met the requirement, perfectly creating a neo-baroque building skillfully closing the junction with Podolska street. The richness of the architecture echoes those displayed on other tenement by the same architect in the city, such as the
Hotel "Pod Orlem" from 1896 or the
Tenement at Freedom Square 1 from 1898. In particular some elements are to be underlined: -
balconies on Pomorska facade with
wrought iron balustrade; - lion masks
motifs on the corner of the house; - angel faces with wings ornamenting all facades. The facade giving onto Podolska street has got more
Neo-renaissance features. File:Bydgoszcz-kamienica na ulicy Pomorskiej 5.JPG|Main facades File:Pomorska 5 1910.jpg|The house on a postcard in 1910 File:Dom, 1896-1897 Bydgoszcz, ul. Pomorska 5 (12).JPG|
Balconies with
wrought iron balustrade File:Bdg ulPomorska 8 10-2013.jpg|Detail of lion masks motifs File:Bdg Pomorska h 06-2013.jpg|Angel decoration File:Dom, 1896-1897 Bydgoszcz, ul. Pomorska 5 (15).JPG|Elevation on Podolska street
Building at 6 1934,
Functionalism The edifice has been commissioned in the 1930s by the
Polish Telephone Joint-stock Company or PAST () to host the local seat of Bydgoszcz. There were working the
switchboard operator, mainly women, manually connecting local and/or distant calls. The functionalist forms display smooth façades lined with
ceramic tiles in its lower part. The entrance is supported by pillars and the
wrought iron main door is decorated with a geometric pattern. File:6 Pomorska Google street.jpg|Main frontage
Tenement at 7A, corner house with 1 Zduny Street 1893–1894 had his barrel workshop and storage there from 1895 to 1903 (ancient address "Rinkauerstraße 7"). In 1904, Ignace Sergot, a painter, moved there from 13
Jan and Jędrzej Śniadeckich Street; he lived there until the middle of the 1920s. This corner building displays various architectural elements of decoration on its facades, from triangular and half-circled
pediments, to
pilasters flanking the window openings, from discrete balustrades to prominent
corbels under the roof. Worth mentioning are the two massive
balconies overhanging streets crossing, with salient
balusters and
consoles. File:Bdg Zduny1-Pomorska7a 1 02-2014.jpg|View from Pomorska street File:Bdg Zduny1-Pomorska7a 7 02-2014.jpg|Detail of
balconies File:Bdg Zduny1-Pomorska7a 4 02-2014.jpg|
Pediment and
corbels
Tenement at 11 1911 The facade displays typical features of
Art Nouveau architecture: simplified
motifs, wavy shapes, floral
ornaments. This elevation echoes facades from architect Erich Lindenburger one can find on
Dworcowa Street, at Nr.45 and 47 (both from 1906). A recent refurbishment of the house has given it back its colors and architectural details. File:Bdg Pomorska a 05-2013.jpg|View from the street File:Bdg Pomorska k 06-2013.jpg|Detail of
ornaments File:Pomorska 11 3.JPG|
Tented roof Tenement at 12 1889–1890 The facade, renovated in 2017–2018, displays eclectic features. In particular, one can highlight the
pedimented windows and the
avant-corps flanking the entrance door. File:Pomorska 12 (1).jpg|Facade from the street File:Pomorska 12 (2).jpg|Entrance and
avant-corps Tenement at 14 1899–1901 File:Miejska Komenda Straży Pożarnej Bydgoszcz 3.jpg|Nr.16 view from the street File:Bdg Pomorska16 Spoz 1 07-2013.jpg|General view of the facade
Tenement at 17 1880s The building, though in bad shape, keeps some remnants of its initial architectural cachet: symmetry of the facade, recurrent
motifs such as vegetal garlands and
pediments on first level windows and slight
avant-corps to underline the frontage. File:Pomorska 17 (2).jpg|Main elevation on the street File:Pomorska 17.jpg|
Motifs detail File:Pomorska 17 (rink 11) 1920.jpg|Picture ca 1920, with firm "Jasiewicz i Syn" board
Tenement at 19 20th century The present house, somehow ordinary, is located on a plot where has been standing a cabaret in the 1920s (
Bi-Ba-Bo) and the 1930s (
Oaza). At that time, the numbering of the street was still echoing the old Prussian one, even though street names changed (from "Rinkauerstraße" to "Pomorska street"): hence the address of the cabaret at Nr.12, now Nr.19. File:Ad pomorska 19 1926.jpg|Advertising for "Bi-Ba-Bo" Cabaret in 1926 === Corner house with
Śniadeckich Street === 1893
Eclecticism-
Neo-Renaissance August Freitwald, a master shoemaker, owned this building which address was then
Elisabethstraße 51 The architecture reflects main features of end of 19th century
Eclecticism, so present in the streets of
Bydgoszcz (e.g.
Dworcowa Street,
Gdańska Street). One can notice a lot of
motifs adorning windows, those on the first floor are topped with triangular
pediments containing angel faces.
Corbels are present on the second floor and at the top of the facade, supporting the roof. File:Bdg Śniadeckich-Pomorska 06-2013.jpg|Main facades File:Sniadeckich 18 detail 2.JPG|Detail of
cartouche and
pediment File:Sniadeckich 18 detail.JPG|Facade details === Corner house with
Śniadeckich Street === 1891 It then was the workshop in the
1900s of a locksmith, Albert Pohl. After 1920, on the ground floor was located the workshop of Piotr Malinowski, a tailor: his name is still visible above the current shop showcase. Nice elevation, underlined by
bossage and
arched windows on the ground floor.
Pediments topping first level windows are adorned with delicate vegetal
ornaments. The tenement was renovated in 2022. File:Pomorska 26.jpg|Main elevation File:Pomorska 26 2.jpg|Facade detail File:Pomorska 26 28 30 1907.jpg|Picture from 1907
Hartung tenement, at 27 1911–1912 It dates back to the same period, i.e. the 1910s. The specificity of this edifice is that, albeit it lost a majority of its architectural details, superb
Art Nouveau ornaments are still preserved: • A stylized eagle above the entry gate, • Motifs on the first floor, • Vegetal decoration on the second floor, wavy shapes as a
frieze on top. File:Pomorska 29.jpg|Main elevation File:Pomorska 29 2.jpg|Entry Gate File:Pomorska 29 3.jpg|
Art nouveau motifs File:Pomorska 29 1.jpg|
Art Nouveau motif details === Tenement at 29A, corner with
Chrobrego street === 1999
Modern architecture Reconstructed at the end of the 20th century, the building mimics the brick edifices of the previous century, exposing a
bay window. The plot has been built since 1895 but was identified under 19 Rinkauerstaße (today's Pomorska street). File:Bdg Pomorska29a 07-2013.jpg|View from street crossing File:Chrobrego rog Pomorska.JPG|Facade on Chrobrego street
Tenement at 30 1893–1894 A carpenter, Ernst Klawonn, was landlord of both edifices (30 & 32) after the turn of the 20th century. The building style echoes closely the one at Nr.28, offering a sort of continuity in the facade decoration. One will notice: • the main gate, topped by a figure of bearded man, • the right side of the elevation, underlined by
pilasters, adorned
cartouche and the figure of a spread-wing eagle overlooking a coat of arms on the second level. • a series of
cartouches and
corbels below the roof line. File:Pomorska 30.jpg|Main elevation File:Pomorska 30 (2).jpg|Motifs details File:Pomorska 30 gate.jpg|Main gate File:Pomorska 30 1914.jpg|The building ca 1914
Tenement at 31, corner with 2 Chrobrego street 1892-1893
Eclecticism This building, together with the neighbouring in
Chrobrego street, have been commissioned and managed by the
Beamten – Wohnungsverein GmbH Bromberg (
Housing Association Bromberg) till 1920, then by the
Bydgoska Spółdzielnia Mieszkaniowa (
Bydoszcz Housing Cooperative). The aim of both bodies was to provide housing for fair prices to those in need, managing several dozens of tenements in various districts of the city. Fairly renovated in 2020, one can highlight the elaborate wooden decoration of its entrance door. File:2 Chrobrego.jpg|Facade at Nr.2 File:2 Chrobrego door.jpg|Adorned door at Nr.2
Tenement at 32 1899–1901 The building's facade lost all its decoration. One can still notice two kernel
dormers and a bell shape
gable. The door still displays the former street number (55) from the Prussian era, kept until the end of the 1920s. File:Pomorska 32.jpg|Main elevation on the street File:Pomorska 32 gate.jpg|Gate with old numeration (55) still visible === Tenement at 35, corner house with
Kwiatowa street === 1897–1899, charged Fritz Weidner to design his habitation, which initial address was
Rinkauerstraße 22-23. A thorough refurbishment has been carried out in 2015 by a real estate firm. Architecturally, the facade echoes the style of corner house with Podolska street, at the southern part of Pomorska street. The façade of the building is decorated with
reliefs, floral
stucco ornaments and
putti. Arched windows,
loggias,
balconies flanked by massive
columns richly adorn the elevation. One can underline the detailed low-
relief of
Demeter with
Cupid as a putto on the first floor, testifying to the wealth of original owner (H. Schulz): as a baker, the image of the goddess of corn, grain, and harvest could be the only patron. File:Bdg Pomorska35 1a 9-2015.jpg|Corner view of both facades File:Bdg Pomorska35 2a 9-2015.jpg|Facade on Pomorska street File:Bdg Pomorska35 4 9-2015.jpg|Detail of
columns and
balcony File:Bdg Pomorska35 2 9-2015.jpg|
Putto File:Bdg Pomorska35 6 9-2015.jpg|
Cupid and
Demeter ===Tenement at 37, corner with
Kwiatowa street=== 1885
Eclecticism Its first landlord was Julius Baumann, registered as a
blacksmith. The building has been renovated in 2020. File:37 Pomorska.jpg|Corner view
Methodist church, at 41 Registered on
Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship heritage list, Nr. A/805, on 16 September 1989. Nr.601240, Reg. September 9, 1989 The
Evangelical Methodist Church is a 19th century
parish church. The church has appreciable acoustics and its decor and furnishings made it considered as the most modern among the Polish Methodist Churches. File:Bdg kościół Baptystów a 05-2013.jpg|Main elevation from
Cieszkowskiego Street File:Kościół metodystów, kon. XIX Bydgoszcz, ul. Pomorska 41 (4).JPG|Side view
Tenement at 42 1910 until the turn of the 20th century. He used the building as a renting place, but did not live there. The main elevation, though very damaged, still displays a heavy
balcony above the main gate, flanked by
pilasters with beautiful
capitals. First floor windows are
pedimented with various
motifs, on the second level, a bearded figure crowns the balcony. File:Pomorska 43.jpg|Main elevation File:Pomorska 43 3.jpg|Facade
balcony File:Pomorska 43 gate.jpg|Main gate
Tenement at 47 1891 A full revitalization of the house, bringing back the original facade appearance with its reconstructed architectural details and original colors, has been carried out in 1993–1994. During the communist era the building housed the restaurant "Gromada", and since 2000, restaurant "Pierogarnia pod Aniołami" ("Dumpling Under the Angels"), run by
Caritas association for Bydgoszcz Diocese. The facade has undergone a full overhaul in 1994. the current building was built on behalf of Adolf Haase, a railway engineer, who moved there one year after its completion in 1904. The facade features elements of
Art Nouveau details, with its curved shape of the
gable or the gate, as well as the presence of thin
pilasters flanking middle windows up to the top. However,
Art Nouveau ornamentation can not be detected further on, other than rudimentary
pediments. We rather discover lean elevation rid of
motifs, characterized by vertical lines, simply decorated
balconies, typical of early modernism. File:Bdg Pomorska52 1 07-2013.jpg|Facade from the street File:Bdg Pomorska52 2 07-2013.jpg|Detail of a
balcony File:Pomorska 52 Gate.JPG|Main gate File:Pomorska 52 AC.JPG|
Avant-corps === Tenement at 53, corner with 1
Mazowiecka street === 1893–1894 until World War I. The building, though badly damaged by time and lack of maintenance, keeps some elements of its glorious past: •
Pediments of different shapes at each windows; • Row of
corbels beneath the roof; •
Balustrade at some openings; •
cartouches on the corner with
motifs; • Gates crowned with a bearded figure. File:Pomorska 53.jpg|Corner view File:Bdg Pomorska 10 07-2013.jpg|View from Mazowiecka street File:Pomorska 53 1.JPG|Detail of adorned windows File:Pomorska 53 detail.jpg|Detail of a cartouche File:Pomorska 53 Gate.JPG|The gate and the overlooking figure
Tenement at 54 1912–1913 From the street, the tenement features nice
festoons and
pediments on a balanced frontage. File:Pomorska 55.jpg|Main frontage from the street File:Pomorska 55 1.jpg|Details of festoons and pediment
Tenement at 57, corner with Hetmańska street 1892–1893 Both elevations are pretty damaged, but one can still make out some nicely decorated
cartouches,
pilasters and
corbels at the base of the
gable. File:Pomorska 57 corner.jpg|Corner view File:Pomorska 57 pomorska.jpg|Facade on Pomorska street File:Pomorska 57 2.jpg|Detail of the facade File:Pomorska 57 detail.jpg|Cartouche detail Northern part of Pomorska street, on the other side of the intersection with Świętojańska street, was named before 1920
Verlängerte Rinkauerstraße ("Extended Rinkauerstraße"), and from 1920 to 1945
Ulica Szczecinska ("
Szczecin Street").
Tenement at 59, corner with Hetmańska street. 1895–1896 until the war. After World War II, Zygmunt Ciupek took over the place and run a candy factory,
Danuta, in the courtyard, which was soon merged into a local cooperative. Since 1990, a bakery, "Cemak", is anew located there. The building design echoes houses at Nr.27, with the ornamented gate with floral
motifs (in the
Art Nouveau style), but also house at Nr.52, by the absence of facade decoration and its lean forms. Once can underline the two long
bay windows that run up to the
gable, giving balance and stability to the ensemble. File:Bdg Pomorska60 07-2013.jpg|Front elevation on the street File:Pomorska 60 gate.JPG|Main gate
Tenement at 66 1893 and had it rebuilt in 1893. He lived there till the end of World War I. Today it is the seat of the
Bydgoszcz Association of Houses Owners and Managers (), a 50-year-old local real estate institution. The main elevation is strikingly classicist: apart from the front gate, all the decoration radiates the notion of symmetry and harmony. Such are the position of
pediments, small
balustrade and pairs of
pilasters. The facade has undergone a recent restoration. File:Bdg Pomorska66 07-2013.jpg|Front elevation on the street
Tenement at 67 1903–1904 The building elevation has delicate human figures and other
motifs inside triangular
pediments of the first floor. At each extremity are male figures, the pediment over the entry gate displays a female one, adorned like a noble: in between them are floral and vegetal
ornaments. On top of the facade,
corbels have been given also women figures. File:Pomorska 67.jpg|Main facade after renovation File:Pomorska 67 3.jpg|Head shaped corbels File:Pomorska 67 1.jpg|Adorned
pediments File:Pomorska 67 2.jpg|Detail of a figure File:Pomorska 67 gate.jpg|Main gate ===
Mural on the back of building at 68 === The author of the mural is the Colombian painter Juan Sebastian Jimenez (pseudonym SEPC). Created in 2019 as part of the edition of the "Vintage Photo Festival", the artist represented there
Jadwiga Szopieraj, a pioneering photograph in Bydgoszcz. SEPC used the negative technique, the final effect is only visible after inverting the colors. File:Jadwiga Szopieraj mural.jpg|Jadwiga Szopieraj mural
Tenement at 70 1896-98 Current facade displays a lot of architectural
motifs: slight
avant-corps on each side, two massive
balconies over the entry gate, a long
corbel table at the top and, especially, many richly decorated
pediments above windows. File:Bdg Pomorska70 2 07-2013.jpg|Main elevation on the street File:Bdg Pomorska 1 07-2008.jpg|
Balcony detail File:Bdg Pomorska70 1 07-2013.jpg|Adorned
pediment File:70 Pomorska gate.jpg|Main gate === Tenement at the corner with 21
Świętojańska street === 1910–1912
Modern architecture The initial tenement comprised two houses, one on Pomorska street (
Rinkauerstraße 33) and the other on Świętojańska street (
Johannisstraße 22). The former address was first owned by Bartholomäus Ferrari, a baker, in 1893, while for the latter, the first landlord was Theofil Krüger, a merchant, after completion of the actual corner house. The elevations have been restored in 2021. One can make out
cartouches, the
tympanum above the gate and the
pediments of the first floor bearing the initial "K", recalling the first landlord, "Kowalkowski". File:71 Pomorska- 1 Bocianowo.jpg|Renovated building, corner view File:Pomorska 71 1.jpg|Pediment detail with the "K" initial, before refurbishment File:1 Bocianowo rog Pomorska 71 1910s.jpg|The tenement in the 1910s === Tenement at 74, corner with 22
Świętojańska street === 1896–1897 Two years later, the tenement housed a hardware store.
Half timbered barracks These buildings are the remnants of military barracks where was billeted the "Prussian Infantry Regiment Nr.148" (), from 1878 till the outbreak of World War I. The construction of the barracks was conducted by Albin Cohnfeld, a wealthy merchant of the city. After 1920, premises housed the Polish 61st Infantry Regiment (). After 1920, premises housed the Polish "61st Infantry Regiment" () till 1933. In 1936, the military fencing was razed and most of the barracks were transformed into a housing estate for the poor. The area is called "Londynek" (
Small London) for houses' likeness to some 19th century London
half timbered buildings. Some edifices are today inhabited, others are being renovated as part of a local urban revitalization project. The buildings are all
half timbered edifices, infilled by
brick. Such military architecture can be also found in
Gdańska Street 147, since
Bromberg was an important garrison city under
Prussian rule. File:Bdg Londynek 2 5-2015.jpg|Houses at 75 File:Londynek Bydgoszcz 2008c.jpg|House at 77 (abandoned) File:Bdg Londynek 7 07-2013.jpg|houses at 88 File:Bdg Londynek 4 07-2013.jpg|House at 88A File:Barracks Pomorska 1914.jpg|Location of the barracks on a 1914 map ==See also==